Given what TV is like and what young Manhattan is like, you'd have to expect more minorities, but the "upper class" tone doesn't ring true without a share of blonds and WASPs.
And "queer content"?
Wasn't that what Chuck was all about?
Posted on 11/11/2019 11:09:41 AM PST by EdnaMode
HBO Max’s in-the-works Gossip Girl reboot may be set in the same universe as the CW original, but the new series will have a dramatically different (read: more diverse) worldview.
In an interview with Vulture, OG Gossip Girl EP Joshua Safran — who will serve as showrunner on the follow-up — acknowledges, “There was not a lot of representation the first time around on the show. I was the only gay writer I think the entire time I was there. Even when I went to private school in New York in the ’90s, the school didn’t necessarily reflect what was on Gossip Girl.”
The new series — which will once again be narrated by Kristen Bell — will right that wrong, Safran promises. “This time around the leads are nonwhite,” he maintains. “There [will also be] a lot of queer content on this show. It is very much dealing with the way the world looks now, where wealth and privilege come from, and how you handle that.
Safran, meanwhile, teases that “there is a twist” at the center of the new series, while also confirming that Gossip Girl 2.0’s new crop of students will similarly attend Constance Billard School for Girls. And it will be set in present day. “It is 12 years, I guess 13 years after the original,” says Safran. “So we are in realtime from the original where we are in the show.”
You know what I expect?
1. This show to bomb...badly.
And...
2. This person to blame “homophobia” for the show’s poor performance.
With low ratings, followed by cries of racism and homophobia. Much like everything that comes out of Hollywood in the present day, nothing new in this script.
“Diverse” means “get rid of Whitey especially if he’s heterosexual.”
Foreigners express surprise when visiting the U.S.ofA., from our media they expect to see a lot more blacks and many, many more gays. Hollywierd does not represent national norms.
Im sure the Rotten Tomatoes scores will be 98% for critics and 10% for viewers; like normal in a woke reboot.
There was an awful show called Sense8, which by no means had the ratings to be renewed, but as you expected, the cries came out and it limped along for another season.
No. So we’re gonna have a politically correct and sexually correct show.
I won’t be watching.
Expect cancellation.
Nope, no thank you.
Nothing wrong with nonwhite leads, if the storyline calls for them. But we can do without the queers being gratuitously inserted into so many of the story lines.
Gee...this sounds like “Must See TV”! Or maybe not! :-)
...and we still have to take the garbage out once a week...
Expect yet another show added to the mountain of shows I won’t be watching.
I wouldn’t watch the original so I’m not exactly in a mad dash to see the woke-PC version, either.
3. Expect they run the show 4-5 years no matter what the ratings.
In terms of my time, this would be like re booting, in 1979. a show which ran from 1967 to 1972. Seems a bit early to get nostalgic about it...
I got through about an hour of a Lifetime Christmas movie yesterday. (My only excuse is that I’m sick and bored.)
The town’s oh-so-wonderful preacher came to the Christmas party and brought his husband and their new baby. Delete!!
You're right about Hollwood.
But, most foreigners don't visit heavily black areas, like the inner city. So, they aren't going to see what that's like.
Given what TV is like and what young Manhattan is like, you'd have to expect more minorities, but the "upper class" tone doesn't ring true without a share of blonds and WASPs.
And "queer content"?
Wasn't that what Chuck was all about?
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